Masculine/feminine : practices of difference(s) / Nelly Richard ; Silvia R. Tandeciarz and Alice A. Nelson, translators.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richard, Nelly.

Series:

Post-contemporary interventions

Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução

Standardized Title:

Masculino/femenino. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Chile.

Feminism.

Chile.

Women--Political activity--Chile.

Women.

Women--Political activity.

Physical Description:

xii, 93 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2004.

Summary:

Well known as the founder and director of the influential Santiago-based journal Revista de critica cultural, Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. Masculine/Feminine presents Richard's groundbreaking thought about the feminist movement in Chile and why it has been crucial not only to the liberation of women but also to understanding the ways in which power operated under the military regime.

Contents:

1 Spatial Politics: Cultural Criticism and Feminist Theory 1

2 Does Writing Have a Gender? 17

3 Politics and Aesthetics of the Sign 29

4 Gender Contortions and Sexual Doubling: Transvestite Parody 43

5 Feminism and Postmodernism 55.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [69]-86) and index.

ISBN:

0822333023

0822333147

OCLC:

52930149